Mark Neumann: “This whole vision that we are talking about here for the future of our great country, it is so different than the 1980's…”

“This whole vision that we are talking about here for the future of our great country, it is so different than the 1980's where there were promises made under Gramm-Rudman-Hollings and those promises, for whatever reasons, could not be kept or were not kept or however we want to put it; they did not meet those targets to get us to a balanced budget. When we talk about trust, it is not only the trust accounts, it is the trust of the American people once again in their government, because after all this is their government, it is not you and me out here, it is the people's government out here. As we are now in the 3rd year of a 7-year plan to balance the budget, we are ahead of schedule in the 1st year, we are ahead of schedule in the 2nd year, we are ahead of schedule in the 3rd year. Some of that trust needs to gradually be restored and some of that cynical attitude out there that occurred because of what happened in the 1980's where so many promises were made and so many promises were broken. Is that not a great vision? We not only get to a balanced budget so that we quit spending our children's money and our children have hope for a future in this country, but we also pay down the national debt so our children inherit a nation debt free.”